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I've never encountered this format. It was never relevant for me. I know about it but that's all. Meanwhile there are other formats that seem to be more import

by stesch 10y ago

I've never encountered this format. It was never relevant for me. I know about it but that's all. Meanwhile there are other formats that seem to be more important. What about WebP? At work we are currently developing a kiosk system based on a big ass touch screen in UHD running in Google Chrome. I suggested switching to WebP for the pictures and it is saving a lot of bandwidth compared to JPEG.

AsyncAwait 10y ago
FLAC is very important indeed if you care about lossless music at all. Basically, when you buy a CD and want to preserve it digitally in its original quality, you go FLAC.
niftich 10y ago
Incidentally Firefox is also adding support for WebP. Posted on HN 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338170 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 WebP is far from state-of-the-art but outperforms JPEG because JPEG is missing the filtering step (where adjacent pixels are being run through a delta-coder) entirely. An alternative is JPEG squishers like Dropbox's Lepton [1] that tries to retrofit this deficiency in a clever meet-in-the-middle way, serving as an additional lossless compression layer while decoding into a perfectly-normal JPEG. [1] https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compression-saving-22-losslessly-from-images-at-15mbs/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compress...
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  The most exciting parts of WebP, for me, are alpha transparency in lossy images, and animation support. This means transparent photos won't need to be in PNG, and perhaps animated GIFs could be replaced with a more efficient format (while still working in <img> tags and retaining their infinite loop when downloaded).

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I've never encountered this format. It was never relevant for me. I know about it but that's all. Meanwhile there are other formats that seem to be more import

by stesch 10y ago

AsyncAwait 10y ago
FLAC is very important indeed if you care about lossless music at all. Basically, when you buy a CD and want to preserve it digitally in its original quality, you go FLAC.
niftich 10y ago
Incidentally Firefox is also adding support for WebP. Posted on HN 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338170 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 WebP is far from state-of-the-art but outperforms JPEG because JPEG is missing the filtering step (where adjacent pixels are being run through a delta-coder) entirely. An alternative is JPEG squishers like Dropbox's Lepton [1] that tries to retrofit this deficiency in a clever meet-in-the-middle way, serving as an additional lossless compression layer while decoding into a perfectly-normal JPEG. [1] https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compression-saving-22-losslessly-from-images-at-15mbs/ https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compress...
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  The most exciting parts of WebP, for me, are alpha transparency in lossy images, and animation support. This means transparent photos won't need to be in PNG, and perhaps animated GIFs could be replaced with a more efficient format (while still working in <img> tags and retaining their infinite loop when downloaded).